cover image The House You Pass on the Way

The House You Pass on the Way

Jacqueline Woodson. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.5 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22797-7

The daughter of an interracial couple, 14-year-old Staggerlee is already an outsider when she wonders if she is gay, too. PW's starred review called this a ""poignant tale of self-discovery"" and praised Woodson's ""graceful, poetic"" prose. Ages 12-up. (Feb.) r